Bertrand SCHOLLER and Hans MAUTNER have, between them, more than 60 years of career experiences, as banker, senior
executive, and financial and strategic consultant, and have contributed to the development of international companies, as well as meeting and collecting contemporary artists.

Since 2013, they have partnered in 55Bellechasse to participate in the emergence of fifteen international artists, with an approach that endeavors to combine some of the historic and traditional aspects of the art dealer’s profession and a more entrepreneurial and international approach to the issues which have been influencing this business for at least a decade.

In 2016, 55Bellechasse opened a Gallery in Miami (American subsidiary).

In 2017 we will also open a foundation in the USA (foundation to support young emerging artists from all over the World, invite them to workshop and sometimes buy their prominent pieces and showcase them in exhibition within a network of partner galleries and/or institutions). 55Bellechasse has been running Club 55bellechasse for 2 years, with members in France and
America; members meet during monthly diners and brunches in Paris and every 3 months in NYC or Miami. Diners are organized to enable members meet an artists and discuss a topic related with the current exhibition and the worldwide “temperature”.

Metallica’s Former Bassist Is Showing at Art Miami and Nothing Else Matters

The Grammy-winning bassist took up painting after leaving the heavy metal band.

Having toured the world as the bassist for Metallica for 15 years, musician Jason Newsted didn’t quite know what to do with himself after leaving the heavy metal band in 2001. A serious shoulder injury a couple years later didn’t help matters. That’s when the six-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer—who had no real formal training as an artist—began to pick up the various paintbrushes and materials that his art school-educated wife, Nicole, had lying around the house.

“I told myself I wasn’t going to look at any books about other artists,” Newsted told artnet News in a phone interview from Jupiter Island in Florida, where he lives. “I was just going to take experience from my own life and what I saw traveling around the world.”...